I am now a researcher for CBCU (Clinical and Biomedical Computing Unit), Cambridge.

My new home page is http://www.cbcu.nhs.uk/profiles/bshand. This is my old page, last updated in early 2004.

Contact Information.

Brian Shand

Office FE04
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
United Kingdom


Tel. : +44 (0)1223 7-63621
Email: Brian.Shand @ cl (dot) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk
My wife, Olivia Will has a web page too, with photos etc.

Recent Publications

Peter R. Pietzuch, Brian Shand, and Jean Bacon "Composite Event Detection as a Generic Middleware Extension". IEEE Network, Special Issue on Middleware Technologies for Future Communication Networks, 18(1):44-55, Jan/Feb 2004. (PDF version).

Vinny Cahill, Brian Shand, Elizabeth Gray, Ciarán Bryce, Nathan Dimmock, Andrew Twigg, Jean Bacon, Colin English, Waleed Wagealla, Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nicon, Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Jean-Marc Seigneur, Marco Carbone, Karl Krukow, Christian Jensen, Yong Chen, and Mogens Nielsen "Using trust for secure collaboration in uncertain environments". IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2(3):52-61, Jul-Sep 2003.. (PDF version).

Peter R. Pietzuch, Brian Shand and Jean Bacon "A Framework for Event Composition in Distributed Systems". 4th International Conference on Middleware (Middleware'03), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2003. LNCS 2672, Eds. M Endler and D Schmidt, pages 62-82. Best paper award.
(PDF version, Postscript version, bib).

Brian Shand, Nathan Dimmock and Jean Bacon "Trust for Ubiquitous, Transparent Collaboration". Proc of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), pages 153-160, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, USA, March 2003.
(PDF Version, bib).

Peter Pietzuch and Brian Shand "A Framework for Object-Based Event Composition in Distributed Systems". Presented at the 12th PhDOOS Workshop (ECOOP'02), Malaga, Spain, June 2002.
(PDF version, Postscript version, bib, PPT presentation).

Brian Shand and Jean Bacon "Policies in Accountable Contracts". Policy 2002: IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, pages 80-91, Monterey, California, U.S.A. June 2002.
(PDF version, bib)..

Links that should exist.